Living examples of stillness, of restraint... not being a rebel, conforming, understanding community status (rank) and placing trust in the Ajahns ...

What are some methods, and qualities, in a person, that are integral to succesfully integrating, and remaining within the Sangha? What requisites or credentials does a monastic require/is expected to have?

Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php

"To become a bhikkhu, it is sufficient to want it! This is the main going forth. Once he has acquired a bowl, a set of three robes and a belt, the future bhikkhu takes the ten precepts of the sámašera (if he has not done so already), because only a sámašera can be incorporated into the saµgha. Once this step is accomplished, the procedure of integration into the saµgha can begin."

Thank you So a monk should also be ?is really enough just to "want it," and have those material requisites and be a male, in good health, w/no obligations?

Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php

The candidate to be a monk is asked eleven questions to determine his suitability, his motives and his readiness; (1) Are you free from disease? (2) Are you a human being? (3) Are you a man? (4) Are you a free man? (5) Are you free from debt? (6) Do you have any obligations to the king? (7) Do you have your parents' permission? (8) Are you at least twenty years of age? (9) Do you have your bowl and robe? (10) What is your name? (11) What is your teacher's name?

Once he is a monk there are 4 offences that would disqualify him from being a monk if he were to commit them;(1) sexual intercourse of any description; (2) taking what is not given with intention to steal; (3) depriving purposely a human being of life in any way; (4) falsely claiming superhuman states of attainment.

"Right effort is effort with wisdom. Because where there is wisdom, there is interest. The desire to know something is wisdom at work. Being mindful is not difficult. But it’s difficult to be continuously aware. For that you need right effort. But it does not require a great deal of energy. It’s relaxed perseverance in reminding yourself to be aware. When you are aware, wisdom unfolds naturally, and there is still more interest." - Sayadaw U Tejaniya

so really everything is covered in the vinaya then? just a lot of self discipline, poverty, chastity along w/what's been mentioned? how else to better integrate and remain in the Sangha?

Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php

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